Women Careers at Sartorius

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At Sartorius, 5,532 women are working towards our ambition of enabling better health for more people, advancing their careers, and growing with the company. Together, they make up 39% of our overall workforce in diverse functions and positions – from researchers and engineers to data analysts and coders, to lawyers, quality managers and operations experts.

With 44%, the share of women among new hires is on the rise. In 2025, a total of 723 new female colleagues joined the company at our sites worldwide.

5,532 women work at Sartorius sites around the globe.

One out of our four Members of the Executive Bord is female and 32% of our people in leadership positions on the first and second management level at Sartorius are women.*  

Initiatives like the partnership with the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association and Sartorius’ own employee resource group, the Sartorius Business Women Association, play a crucial role in empowering women at our company and increasing their share in leadership positions. 
 

32% of people in leadership positions below the Board level and on the second management level are female.

For the third year in a row, Sartorius made it into Forbes’ ranking of the World's Best Companies for Women. And in Germany, where more than 1,380 women work for Sartorius, the company ranked 25th among the 100 "Top Companies for Women" that were awarded in a survey conducted by the German news magazine Stern together with research company Statista.

 But we are not resting on our laurels: While we believe that we are moving in the right direction, we know we are not there yet.
 

On March 8, International Women’s Day, we celebrate women's achievements and raise awareness for the efforts that still need to be made on the road to equality.

^{* Due to the relatively small number of managers at the first level, even individual personnel changes can lead to sizable swings in this percentage.}